Originally published: 1953. Charles A. Lindbergh captured the world's imagination when he piloted his single-engine plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris on the first nonstop flight over the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927. First published in 1953, this firsthand account which carries the reader along on an historic adventure -- joins the Scribner Classics line just when Scott M. Berg's publication of a major new Lindbergh biography promises to bring unparalleled attention to Lindbergh's life and world.

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Summary/Annotation -> Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again...." -- From "The Spirit of St. Louis" Charles A. Lindbergh captured the world's attention -- and changed the course of history -- when he completed his famous nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. In "The Spirit of St. Louis," Lindbergh takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, bringing to life the thrill and peril of trans-Atlantic travel in a single-engine plane. Eloquently told and sweeping in its scope, Lindbergh's Pulitzer Prize-winning account is an epic adventure tale for all time.

$a Charles A. Lindbergh captured the world's imagination when he piloted his single-engine plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris on the first nonstop flight over the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927. First published in 1953, this firsthand account which carries the reader along on an historic adventure -- joins the Scribner Classics line just when Scott M. Berg's publication of a major new Lindbergh biography promises to bring unparalleled attention to Lindbergh's life and world.